Marvel Studios has been the very model of a modern mini studio. Chief creative officer Kevin Feige and his small stable of executives have reliably delivered an unbroken string of global blockbusters to theaters and, starting in 2021, smash TV shows for Disney+.
And they’ve done so while keeping virtually all their behind-the-scenes drama from spilling over into public view. It took just a week for that impeccable reputation to all but collapse, when Disney, Marvel’s parent company, fired Feige’s most high-profile lieutenant, Victoria Alonso, after 17 years with the company, most recently as the president of physical, postproduction, visual effects and animation. “She’s always been a huge part of Marvel,” former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) told Variety on March 26. “I was very surprised to see the news.
I hope that all gets worked out, that everyone ends up friends. It’s a great group of people that have always been really kind to each other.
Hopefully, it doesn’t turn into a thing.” Alas, it already has. Sources at Disney say Alonso was fired over her decision to moonlight for Amazon Studios as a producer of the Oscar-nominated international film “Argentina, 1985,” without notifying the company’s Management Audit Organization, a committee that approves extracurricular business activities. (For example, Disney film executive Sean Bailey got its approval to invest in Teremana, Dwayne Johnson’s tequila company.) Things became untenable, these sources say, after Alonso continued to promote “Argentina, 1985” during awards season despite signing an amended employment agreement expressly forbidding her from doing so.
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